Than/Then • • • • • • • • •Rules to Remember

Than/Then? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Rules to Remember

Rule: Use the word than to show a comparison.

What do you have to know in order to teach your dogs tricks? . . . more than the dog

What's more amazing than a dog that can count? . . . a spelling bee

Rule: Use the word then when you can substitute the words "in that case."

Customer: "Is it customary to tip a waiter in this restaurant?" Waiter: "It certainly is." Customer: "Then you'd better tip me. I've been waiting for my dinner for an hour."

Patient: "I have near-constant ringing in my ears." Doctor: "Then get an unlisted ear."

Rule: Use the word then to show time sequence:

What did the portrait say to the wall? . . . "First they framed me and then they hung me!"

Teacher: "Oxygen was discovered in 1774." Student: "So what did people breathe before then?"

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Directions: Write the word then or than to complete each joke. Remember to capitalize the first word in a sentence.

1. When is it better to give ___________ to receive? . . . in a snowball fight

2. Why did the girl put her sleeping bag into the fireplace and ___________ climb in?

. . . She wanted to sleep like a log.

3. Boy: "Do you have holes in your socks?" Girl: "No, these are brand new." Boy: "___________ how did you get your feet into them?"

4. Customer: "The safety matches you sold me won't light." Shopkeeper: "Well, you can't get matches much safer ___________ that."

5. What breed of dog can jump higher ___________ a building? . . . any breed of dog . . . no building can jump!

6. Teacher: "At your age, I could name all of the U.S. presidents in the right order."

Student: "Well sure, because back ___________ there were only about five of them."

7. Boy visiting FBI office: "Are those really photos of America's Most Wanted?" FBI agent: "Yes indeed." Boy: "___________ why didn't you keep them after you took their pictures?"

8. What did one math book say to the other? . . . "I've got more problems ___________ you do."

9. Boy: "Country people are much smarter ___________ city people." Girl: "How can you say that?!" Boy: "Because the population is so much denser in the city."

10. Boy: "My older brother works with more ___________ 200 people beneath him." Girl: "He must have a really important job. What does he do?" Boy: "He mows the grass in a cemetery."

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